Can JPEG Files Have Transparency? YES!
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Date: 2022-07-19
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Marcelo
Instead of making a path manually, it's easier and faster to make a subject selection, refine if needed, and then go to paths and select make work path. PS instantly makes a very accurate path of the selection. From there you can go on to the clipping path.
Once the path is saved another trick is: from the File menu, go to Export and selct Export paths to Illustrator to export the path to AI and use it there to make the mask (that allows to refine the path in AI, change it, and use it for other effects and design.
Old times with PS and QXP needed a lot of workarounds and ways to work with low res images to make workflow faster, and then replace the low res for high res for final printing.
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Instead of making a path manually, it's easier and faster to make a subject selection, refine if needed, and then go to paths and select make work path. PS instantly makes a very accurate path of the selection. From there you can go on to the clipping path.
Once the path is saved another trick is: from the File menu, go to Export and selct Export paths to Illustrator to export the path to AI and use it there to make the mask (that allows to refine the path in AI, change it, and use it for other effects and design.
Old times with PS and QXP needed a lot of workarounds and ways to work with low res images to make workflow faster, and then replace the low res for high res for final printing.
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bacsi
Oh COME ON. This is an Indesign feature NOT a Photoshop or JPG feature. It ONLY works in Indesign not in Illustrator. Indesign has the capability to see all path in any image file and use it for example for runaround or anything else you can even change pathes if a picture contains more than one, you can also turn down or up layers in a layered photoshop file. The best to use Photoshop files as picture in any adobe soft anyway (including Indesign, Illustrator hell even Premier. You can even convert picture pathes to picture boxes. But this is old news we all know it before (AND ONLY IN INDESIGN) PNG is only RGB (no CMYK)
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Oh COME ON. This is an Indesign feature NOT a Photoshop or JPG feature. It ONLY works in Indesign not in Illustrator. Indesign has the capability to see all path in any image file and use it for example for runaround or anything else you can even change pathes if a picture contains more than one, you can also turn down or up layers in a layered photoshop file. The best to use Photoshop files as picture in any adobe soft anyway (including Indesign, Illustrator hell even Premier. You can even convert picture pathes to picture boxes. But this is old news we all know it before (AND ONLY IN INDESIGN) PNG is only RGB (no CMYK)
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KahSing82
Im pretty sure i sounded old to tell u that this is not something new n weve been working on files like this since back in adobe CS era (more than 10yrs ago, or was it before CS i cant recall lol. The downside is the jpeg file transparent wont be supported in other apps such as word doc or powerpoints.
Anyway i still remember receiving the files from client with all the path pre-saved by their studios. Compare to now clients just dump u the files n u path it yourself.
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Im pretty sure i sounded old to tell u that this is not something new n weve been working on files like this since back in adobe CS era (more than 10yrs ago, or was it before CS i cant recall lol. The downside is the jpeg file transparent wont be supported in other apps such as word doc or powerpoints.
Anyway i still remember receiving the files from client with all the path pre-saved by their studios. Compare to now clients just dump u the files n u path it yourself.
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Peter
Its not a true transparency, you are just saving the clipping path for printing with the file. Adobe photoshop has supported this with JPEG, TiFF and PSD files when saving. However, the program using the file must support reading the clipping path as well, hence the reason the jpeg doesnt show with a transparent background in the finder or explorer before you input. Calling this a transparency is indeed, click bait, because this is NOT a true transparency.
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Its not a true transparency, you are just saving the clipping path for printing with the file. Adobe photoshop has supported this with JPEG, TiFF and PSD files when saving. However, the program using the file must support reading the clipping path as well, hence the reason the jpeg doesnt show with a transparent background in the finder or explorer before you input. Calling this a transparency is indeed, click bait, because this is NOT a true transparency.
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Lszl
dude, useful trick but unfortunately forgot to mention that procedure(saving as jpeg) particulary works ONLY with Adobe InDesign, so if you want to use a cutout photo with a backround even using clipping path tool, you have to save simply as photoshop eps format to be able using that file in ANY graphic editing software such as Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw. even A. InDesign.
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dude, useful trick but unfortunately forgot to mention that procedure(saving as jpeg) particulary works ONLY with Adobe InDesign, so if you want to use a cutout photo with a backround even using clipping path tool, you have to save simply as photoshop eps format to be able using that file in ANY graphic editing software such as Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw. even A. InDesign.
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Juan
The clipping path technique is something long used to silhouette TIFF files based on the same procedure. Keep in mind that for printing purposes it is recommended for the file to be 300dpi and color space CMYK. Now then, Indesign lets you create a silhouette and mask an image to let the text flow within the silhouette. Good tutorial. Thanks.
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The clipping path technique is something long used to silhouette TIFF files based on the same procedure. Keep in mind that for printing purposes it is recommended for the file to be 300dpi and color space CMYK. Now then, Indesign lets you create a silhouette and mask an image to let the text flow within the silhouette. Good tutorial. Thanks.
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Jeff
PNG files always save out as RGB and should not be used for CMYK printing due to conversion color shifting. But this is an awesome trick for JPGs! I would still recommend placing PSD files for CMYK printing since JPGs can be saved with destructive compression.
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PNG files always save out as RGB and should not be used for CMYK printing due to conversion color shifting. But this is an awesome trick for JPGs! I would still recommend placing PSD files for CMYK printing since JPGs can be saved with destructive compression.
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Henry
If your transparent png file is 300 dpi and not enlarged or scaled up above the original size, you should not see any pixelization. Someone correct me if Im wrong.
P. S. Ive been using clipping paths since learning them in Adobe Illustrater 88.
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If your transparent png file is 300 dpi and not enlarged or scaled up above the original size, you should not see any pixelization. Someone correct me if Im wrong.
P. S. Ive been using clipping paths since learning them in Adobe Illustrater 88.
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Dante
Summary, Just stick to PNG as it is universally interchangeable and JPG is only good for published and finished works. And this hack is only good in between Adobe software and doesn't really help you at all since disc space is no issue these days.
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Summary, Just stick to PNG as it is universally interchangeable and JPG is only good for published and finished works. And this hack is only good in between Adobe software and doesn't really help you at all since disc space is no issue these days.
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CoolAsFreya
Interesting to note that clipping paths are stored in the JPG as metadata and are not part of the standard. It is up to the editing/viewing programs to know how to read the clipping paths and how to use the data to transform the image.
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Interesting to note that clipping paths are stored in the JPG as metadata and are not part of the standard. It is up to the editing/viewing programs to know how to read the clipping paths and how to use the data to transform the image.
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Joseph
This video was great, however I have question or need help using a jpeg logo with a transparent background on Shutterfly but it doesnt seem to keep the background transparent when I upload it onto shutterfly. Can you help me with that?
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This video was great, however I have question or need help using a jpeg logo with a transparent background on Shutterfly but it doesnt seem to keep the background transparent when I upload it onto shutterfly. Can you help me with that?
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Melody
I went through these steps and it seemed to work but when I transferred the photo to Shutterfly, it created a white background. Does this only work in the professional layout software like Indesign?
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I went through these steps and it seemed to work but when I transferred the photo to Shutterfly, it created a white background. Does this only work in the professional layout software like Indesign?
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Giannis
uhmm actually this one is a clickbait. No there is no transparency info on a JPG, that's a mask (clipping path) info that few software can read. You have good content on another note though.
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uhmm actually this one is a clickbait. No there is no transparency info on a JPG, that's a mask (clipping path) info that few software can read. You have good content on another note though.
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Jinx
Came here to complain about the clickbait; stayed here for the lucid explanation. Your videos have transformed how I have worked with Photoshop over the last 12 months.
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Came here to complain about the clickbait; stayed here for the lucid explanation. Your videos have transformed how I have worked with Photoshop over the last 12 months.
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Martin
That is not transparency. That's a mask that Indesign is making from the embedded path. Used to do that in the 90's before transparency. EPS with clippingpaths.
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That is not transparency. That's a mask that Indesign is making from the embedded path. Used to do that in the 90's before transparency. EPS with clippingpaths.
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Izzy
Used to work in Quark. We used the technique for the TIFF format. Id be curious to know if TIFF still have any value with all the types of file formats out there
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Used to work in Quark. We used the technique for the TIFF format. Id be curious to know if TIFF still have any value with all the types of file formats out there
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Verneri
While cool, this is nonstandard behavior and not in spec! Support is basically Adobe only and no chance of it working in web or pretty much anywhere else.
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While cool, this is nonstandard behavior and not in spec! Support is basically Adobe only and no chance of it working in web or pretty much anywhere else.
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nickhemphill
This is how we had to do it in print journalism for years using Quark Xpress. Was so happy when the company finally spent money for InDesign.
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This is how we had to do it in print journalism for years using Quark Xpress. Was so happy when the company finally spent money for InDesign.
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Sven2157
WHY DO YOU SUCK! I'll tell you! You make videos and then title them with NOTHING that is in the video! ONCE! In a while you nail it!
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WHY DO YOU SUCK! I'll tell you! You make videos and then title them with NOTHING that is in the video! ONCE! In a while you nail it!
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Kaassouffle
We used to work with this method back in the early 00ies. When we still used Quark Xpress. Yes, Im that old.
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We used to work with this method back in the early 00ies. When we still used Quark Xpress. Yes, Im that old.
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